In Conversation - Isabelle Gapp & Zachari Logan

Join us for a conversation between an art historian and an artist who spent ten days together in the Canadian Arctic. Centring on Zachari's drawings and lithograph, created during and inspired by his artist residency at Kinngait Studios, Nunavut, last year, the discussion explores a shared fascination with the local light and landscape, flora and fauna, and reflect on their experience of the Arctic during the autumn equinox.

We will have light refreshments available. Please note that this event will be held in our workshop space at 21 Castle Street, AB11 5BQ. It can be cold in the workshop, so please make sure to wear appropriate clothing.

We would like to thank the Interdisciplinary Institute at the University of Aberdeen for their support in hosting this event.

About the contributors:

Isabelle Gapp

Isabelle Gapp is an art historian who writes and teaches at the intersections of landscape painting, environmental history, and climate change around the Circumpolar North. She is an Assistant Professor and Interdisciplinary Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Aberdeen, where she also serves as Co-Director for The Centre for the North.

Zachari Logan

Zachari Logan is a Canadian artist working mainly with large-scale drawing, ceramics and installation practices, evolving a visual language that intersects memory and observation to explore figuration and selfhood. Employing strategies of visual quotation, mined from place and experience Logan rewilds his body as a queer embodiment of nature and a site of excavation.

As an extension of his studio practice, Logan has attended many residencies; including Vienna's Museums Quartier MQ21 Program, the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, Wave Hill Botanical Gardens Winter Workspace Program in the Bronx and Little Bird Artist Residency in rural Bulgaria. Logan has worked collaboratively with several celebrated artists, including Ross Bleckner and Sophie Calle and his work has been featured in many publications worldwide, including BBC Culture and the Boston Globe.Logan has exhibited widely throughout North America, Europe and Asia and his work is found in many private and public collections, including; National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario and Remai Modern. Recent institutional projects include Shadow Of The Sun: Ross Bleckner & Zachari Logan, (2021) at Wave Hill Botanical Gardens in the Bronx and Wildflower (2021) a solo exhibition at the Canadian High Commission in London UK. In 2021 Logan’s first book of poetry, A Natural History of Unnatural Things was published, and in the spring of 2025 his second book, Green, a collection of poetry, essays and drawings was released, both published by Radiant Press.

www.zachariloganart.com

Image credit: Zachari Logan. Kinggait No. 2, graphite and pastel on black paper, 12x19 inches, 2025. (*two images provided, one slightly cropped- one full sheet size)

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